latino immigrants
The real story of Latino immigrants – setting roots
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco (3 minute read) Buried in the fourteenth and fifteenth paragraph of a Pew Hispanic Center FacTank post is the future of Latinos in the U.S. That’s […]
Texas cop asking Latino immigrants to have “calma amigos” goes viral
*Why you should read this: Because mainstream media is like a soap opera, you can skip a day or two, go back to it and they’re talking about the same things. […]
Latino immigrants changing the face of rural populations
*I remember helping to organize voter registration drives in Aspen and Telluride. Even back in 2004 Latinos there were service workers, invisible to the “mainstream” community. VL By PennState News […]
Children Of Latino Immigrants Forge Paths In Agriculture
*I love these stories. They show the many ways Latinos are contributing, taking adversity and turning into a future for their families, all across the country. VL By Amy Mayer […]
Ebola fears spark backlash against Latino immigrants
*Some GOP candidates paint Latinos (let’s face it, that’s who they’re talking about) as disease-carrying, undesirable “others.” Then they wonder why a majority of Latinos don’t vote for Republicans … […]
King City police arrested, Latino immigrants victimized, D.A. says
By Lee Romney, Los Angeles Times SAN FRANCISCO — In a predawn sweep that stunned the Salinas Valley town of King City, the acting police chief, a former chief, other […]
Rep. Steve King Says Latino Immigrants Are From A ‘Violent Civilization
By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, Think Progress During a sparsely attended, Tea Party-sponsored, “Stop Amnesty” rally against immigration reform on Monday, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) launched into a vicious tirade against individuals from […]
Study: Latino immigrants shielded U.S. workers from job cuts
By UPI CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 7 (UPI) — Low-skilled Mexican-born U.S. workers shielded low-skilled U.S.-born workers from job losses during the Great Recession by returning to Mexico, a study found. The […]
Latino immigrants helping the homeless in NYC
By Being Latino For those of us who grew up in New York City in the 1970s and the 1980s, that all too familiar sight of people sleeping on cardboard […]
Mainstream Media Getting It: Latino Immigrants Are Immigrating
By Ian Reifowitz, Huffington Post You may be familiar with Samuel Huntington. He’s the political scientist who, in his last years, offered dire warnings that Hispanic and especially Mexican immigrants behave profoundly differently than […]